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That's odd, the new air conditioner is icing up
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So it looks like we are going to spend about $3k-ish to replace it. Wooo. I'm fifty, so if we get the efficient one, it will have paid for itself in about five years. I am just repeating what the repair guy told me.
I realize we could buy a rebuilt blower motor but I think the furnace won't be around much longer, and our basement is always sort of too cold all the time anyway.
On the other hand, in two years there will only be three of us living in this 2,700 square foot house, and in six years it will be just my wife and me, at which point we renti it out and buy a condo or maybe a cabin. [various Empty Nest cliches redacted]
For want of a furnace blower, the war was lost.
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Edit: I can't help you with the AC. The climate here is too mild to merit installing it. But we are considering upgrading from a monitor heater to forced air heat, possibly with a wood stove for augmentation and mental comfort.
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If you're talking about an old AC and that there's icing forming on the pipes, that means that you could be losing coolant (that's bass-ackwards to me, but whatever). And that's a problem you can't fix yourself unless you're knowledgeable in HVAC. If you have a 20-year-old AC, you'll also most likely have to pay big bucks to recharge it. I got to make those decisions last year - in 2015 the AC went belly up and it was $200-$300 just to recharge it, knowing it would all leak out by the next year. Last year we bought a new one, which we didn't want to do but it gets too hot to do without AC.
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Leave Furnace Fan In “On” Mode. – This will move the air in your house creating a movement that will force cool air up and warm air down. Return air ducts in the lower level will suck in the cooler air and dispatch it to the warmer area of the house. The return air ducts will always be sucking warm air from the upper levels and mixing it with the cooler air in the lower levels.
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cranberries wrote: Ok, so new furnace and fan, two year old air conditioner, super fancy tablet thermostat, and the basement is still six degrees colder than the upstairs. I'll give it a day or two to normalize.
I think basements are just supposed to be colder overall. Heat rising and all. I was interested in your result as my basement is significantly colder than my main floor and top level is even warmer but I suspected that physics is working against us.
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Find the part number on the side of the unit and then google it. You'll be able to find a distributor who sells them either locally or online. Takes an hour to install and wire, TOPS.
I just had my AC go out 2 weeks ago, I feel your pain. We got an American Standard, but if my neighbor didn't own the HVAC company (and would never speak to us again if we didn't buy from her) I'd have gotten a Day and Night. Same guts as a Carrier but 1/3 the price.
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